פָּעַם
pâʻam · H6470 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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to be disturbed, to be troubled
Literally: (one's) spirit is disturbed; hence: state in which humans experience a feeling of unease, usually as a result of an unexpected event, such as a dream
ExamplesGenesis 41:8 Now in the morning his spirit was troubled, so he sent messengers and called for all the soothsayer priests of Egypt, and all its wise men. And Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them for Pharaoh.
Daniel 2:1 Now in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was troubled and his sleep left him.
Daniel 2:3 The king said to them, “I had a dream, and my spirit is anxious to understand the dream.”
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to be disturbed, to be troubled
State in which humans experience a feeling of unease, usually as a result of an unexpected event, such as a dream
ExamplesPsalm 77:4 You have held my eyelids open; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
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to stir
Causative action by which deities cause humans to experience a state of unrest, prompting them to act
ExamplesJudges 13:25 And the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him when he was in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- רוּחַspirit, wind 3
- Not stated: I 1
- Not stated (infinitive) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- וֹhim 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for+ יָדַעto know 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- רָגַז râgaz · H7264 · to tremble, to shake, to quake
- רָגַז shares the sense of 'trouble' or 'agitation' with פָּעַם, though רָגַז more commonly emphasizes trembling or emotional/physical disturbance, while פָּעַם (as a verb) focuses on beating/throbbing motion or troubling.
- עָכַר ʻâkar · H5916 · trouble, to cause trouble for (someone else)
- עָכַר means 'to trouble' or 'bring calamity upon,' parallel to the 'trouble' sense of פָּעַם, though עָכַר typically implies bringing disaster or misfortune while פָּעַם may include a physical agitation/movement sense.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- פָּעַם describes being troubled, moved, or stirred, as of Pharaoh's spirit troubled by his dreams in Genesis 41:8, Nebuchadnezzar's spirit anxious and troubled by his own dream in Daniel 2:1 and 2:3, and the Spirit of the LORD beginning to stir Samson in Judges 13:25.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6470. paam [מָּעַם] verb thrust, impel (probably originally strike, hit, see…
[מָּעַם] verb thrust, impel (probably originally strike, hit, see derivatives, and Phoenician פעם foot); —
Qal Infinitive construct suffix לְפַעֲמוֺ Jdg 13:25 the spirit of ׳י began to impel him.
Niph`al be distrurbed, Perfect1singular נִפְעַמְתִּי Psa 77:5; Imperfect3feminine singular רוּחוֺ וַתִּמָּ֫עֶם Gen 41:8; Dan 2:3; so
Hithpa`el Imperfect3feminine singular רוּחוֺ וַתִּתְמָּ֫עֶם Dan 2:1.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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